(2025, July 4)
Significant weight loss particularly reduction of visceral fat is associated with improvements in testosterone levels in men with obesity-related hypogonadism, as visceral fat drives conversion of testosterone to oestrogen
The other long-term concern is muscle loss (sarcopenia), which is not drug specific it accompanies any form of rapid weight reduction, and needs preventive measures like enhanced protein intake and strength training to be instituted from the beginning
Ipamorelin is not FDA-approved and is used off-label
Limited availability of cellular Zn due to Zn deficiency could result in a loss of activity of these Zn dependent proteins involved in the maintenance of DNA integrity and may upregulate expression of the tumor suppressor protein p53, but impair the DNA binding abilities of p53, nuclear factor kB (NFkB) and AP-1 transcription factors [139]
And so for me, eventually, when GLP-1s came out, it was like, No way, no how